It's everything you hoped The Source was, in a location you actually want to go to.

But not everyone is on board. Says Jan89:

Oh, goody. More expensive restaurants and bars that the average downtown worker can't afford. Why can't we have a drugstore, a small grocery store and some useful shops for the people who will be using Union Station as a transportation hub? The disconnect between services provided downtown and the needs of workers continues to grow wider, and forces people to drive more and shop in suburban locations.

What do you think about the retail and restaurant tenants going into Denver Union Station? What else would you like to see there?

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.